![]() ![]() I’d never read anything quite like it in all my years of voracious reading. I don’t recall which one I read first, but I know that while The Sun Dog left little impression on me, The Langoliers absolutely blew my mind. I read two of the four novellas in Four Past Midnight before the book had to be returned to the library: The Langoliers and The Sun Dog. To this day I’m not sure what led my mom to pick up that book for me from the library, but I’m glad she did. ![]() I had never read anything by Stephen King before, and in fact viewed him with faint suspicion and distaste. I was in late high school (so 1992 or thereabouts) when my mom came home from the library with a copy of Four Past Midnight. My thoughts: The Langoliers was the story that launched my decades-long Stephen King obsession. And strange creatures called the langoliers, who “tidy up” history by literally devouring the past, are headed their way. They manage to land the plane (one of the group is a pilot), only to find that the world is gray and dead-they have gone back in time, but it turns out the past is an empty shadow of the present. ![]() Spoiler-filled synopsis: A handful of passengers on a red-eye flight across America wake up to find that the rest of the passengers-and the plane’s crew-have vanished into thin air. The story: The Langoliers, collected in Four Past Midnight. ![]()
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